ἄνεμος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *ánemos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁mos, a nominal derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (“breathe”). Cognates include Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀚𐀗 (a-ne-mo /⁠ánemoi⁠/, “winds”, pl.), Old Armenian հողմ (hołm, “wind”), Latin animus, Old Frisian omma, and possibly Sanskrit अनिल (ánila); Compare also Tocharian B āñme (“self; soul”) and Old Armenian անձն (anjn, “person”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ᾰ̓́νεμος • (ánemos) m (genitive ᾰ̓νέμου); second declension (Epic, Attic, Ionic, Koine)

1. wind, breeze, gale
2. any of the four cardinal directions

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Greek: άνεμος (ánemos)

Further reading

• “ἄνεμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἄνεμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἄνεμος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἄνεμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ἄνεμος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἄνεμος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἄνεμος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G417 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• ἄνεμος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • air idem, page 21.
  • blast idem, page 82.
  • breeze idem, page 97.
  • gust idem, page 379.
  • wind idem, page 980.